postdoc position in Fribourg, Switzerland

[Andres Perez-Uribe]

                      Post-Doctoral Research Position


The position
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The position is intended for an enthusiastic postgraduate, who have
terminated her/his PhD studies. The candidate will participate in the
research activities that are conducted within the WELCOME project.

Her/his duties may concern :
(i) the use of learning and evolutionary techniques to provide adaptation to
the new network-oriented computing frameworks (ubiquitous computing and
intelligent networks),
(ii) the development of adaptable Agent-based methodologies for
Internet-based infrastructures and mobile robots/devices,
(iii) the tackling of Human Machine Interaction issues, together with
supervision of two Ph.D research works.

As far as possible she/he will build contacts with external academic or
commercial organizations, and promote industrial applications of her/his
research. Moreover, she/he will follow student projects realted to her/his
topics of research. An open-mind to interdisciplinary approaches and to
non-standard innovation techniques will be appreciated.

The position is to be taken September 1st, 2001 (or at convenience). It is
granted for two years by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific
Research (with a possibility of renewal once). Job location is Fribourg, a
french-german bilingual middle-size city in Switzerland.

The requirements
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*Education: Ph.D in Computer Science (or a related area)
*Ability to speak, read and write French or German or English
*Proficient in one or several topics, such as:

   * Autonomous mobile robots, Adaptive Systems
   * Agent Technology, Multi-Agent Systems
   * Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computing
   * Intelligent Networks, Distributed Systems and/or Coordination
     Languages,
   * Human Computer Interaction, Immersive and Ubiquitous Computing,
     Force-feedback interaction, Augmented or virtual reality
   * Object-Oriented design techniques, Java programming, Jini technology

The research group
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The Parallelism and Artificial Intelligence (PAI) group is a rapidly growing
and dynamic research group that concentrates its research on hot topics
related to new information and communication technologies. His interests
encompass namely the methodologies of Autonomous and Adaptive Systems,
Collective Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, Agent Technology, Massively
Distributed Systems, and Intelligent Networks, but also the field of Human
Computer Interaction, where it addresses specifically the Immersive trend
and Ubiquitous Computing.

Research resources
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The group holds a UNIX workstation environment, and PC and Macintosh
machines. In particular, it possesses about 20 Khepera robots: 7 of them are
equipped with radio communication modules, grippers (arms), and linear
vision, and one of them has a CCD color camera. We have explored both
single-robot learning tasks and collective robotic behaviors (See the
description of the CALIMA and AMOC projects). Moreover, we are acquiring new
mobile devices (wearable eyeglasses, PALM devices, etc.) for our research in
Ubiquitous computing, human-machine interfaces, and intelligent networks.

Applications with CV and research paper list must be sent to (Email
submissions are encouraged):

     Prof. Bat Hirsbrunner
     University of Fribourg, ch. du Muse 3, CH-1700 Fribourg
     Tel.: +41 (0)26 300 8465 (secretariat - morning)
     Email: beat.hirsbrunner at unifr.ch
     URL: http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/pai/

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Andres PEREZ-URIBE
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Parallelism and Artificial Intelligence Group (PAI)
Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Ch. du Musee 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Office 2.76b Perolles
Tel. +41-26-300-8473, Fax  +41-26-300-9731
Email:Andres.PerezUribe at unifr.ch, http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/~aperezu/